WITA hosted on November 14th an online panel discussion on the importance of USMCA to North American competitiveness, including in relation to great power competition with China. Speakers discussed the agreement’s geopolitical significance, its evolution as a trade agreement, and the challenges and opportunities it presents amid growing great power competition.

Featured Speakers:

Emily Kilcrease, Senior Fellow and Director of the Energy, Economics, and Security Program, Center for a New American Security; former Deputy Assistant U.S. Trade Representative for Investment, Office of the U.S. Trade Representative

Inu Manak, Senior Fellow for International Trade, Council on Foreign Relations

Derek Scissors, Senior Fellow, American Enterprise Institute; Chief Economist, China Beige Book; former member, US-China Economic and Security Review Commission

Moderator: Arun Venkataraman, Partner, Covington; former Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Global Markets and Director General of the U.S. and Foreign Commercial Service

Thank you to our USMCA Review Series Sponsors